I haven’t written for a while. It’s because I have spent a lot of time in my studio recently! I had clearly neglected my 3rd canvas but got it finally finished. Clearly Flora Bowley’s influence here!! Great exercise to get colors to pop and variety in hues..
Love those hues!
Here is the link to the gallery of the fabulous Bloom True online workshop from Flora Bowley I took part in February!
Amazing pieces… I am blown away!
Enjoy!
A year ago, we left our home, left behind the known, the easy. The empty, the wounded.
and embarked on our journey, direction Northern Territory, and embraced the uncertain, the unknown.
A year later, we are counting our blessings. And they’ve abounded. Settling in Darwin has been an enrichment to our lives. Certainly mine!!
so thank you all! thank you Universe! thank you Australia! thank you my husband! I’m so glad we embarked together on this journey! I am grateful.
Happy moi!
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage
~Anais Nin
The sky lately has been showing off incredible sunsets. A bit common in Darwin, I know, but still… couldn’t resist those colors…
This morning, after waking up, I went in my studio. I wasn’t sure what to do, what to start or to continue…
so I sat in my bean bag. I paused for a moment. I just sat and felt this immense gratitude…
Grateful for being in this place, grateful for being able to learn and play and laugh freely, while listening to some KD Lang. How lovely…
(despite Leonard Cohen’s sombre lyrics)
How amazing to discover, learn and explore a new ability or a new skill!! I have started this new drawing online course with Carla Sonheim – Draw! – and the first day assignment was to draw something unusual with your other hand, the non-dominant one! I was so skeptical of my ability to even do something presentable… and yet, what I discovered was a funky type of drawing, with interesting lines, which gave a real character to the subject.
What was even more fascinating to me was that trying to keep the looser line type while drawing with my good hand was not that easy. The result of the same subject drawn with my good hand was flat, a bit boring, less interesting.
Perhaps I should always draw with my wrong hand.
and then Haiku way drawing, seven lines only…
and blind drawing…
Love this!
and furthermore, this is a great learning… when you are so sure of not being able to do something, do it anyway…and see what happens!
Experimenting and not being attached is a very freeing experience. Getting loose and playful brings lovely results…
It started this way..
and ended up this way..
Secret places we go
The creative process is such an interesting one, certainly not a linear one…
Layers after layers, things keep appearing…
And disappearing.
With finally a sense of direction (after so many despairing moments). I sort of knew where it was going, without knowing at all!
As I’m trying to describe this process for this post, I find it difficult to put in sentence a five-week exercise of acrylic painting. Words aren’t the best option to describe the emotions in relation to creative expression.
Certainly my soul understood!
I am totally amazed on how life can totally and continually surprise us.
We arrived in Darwin in July 2013, after an amazing 2-month trip across Australia. It then took us two months to find jobs and a house to settle in. Now, six months after getting into our rented house in Rapid Creek, I am thrilled and energized by this new emerging part of me who dare to create, paint, draw and show off!!
As our new home allowed it, I decided to use a room as my studio. I always used to paint a little bit on small canvases with a little starter kit and mini paint tubes. It was time to get real stuff! I invested in colors and new paint brushes. My husband made my art table, spacious and solid.
Since then, it has never stopped to grow… everything, the color selection, the size of the canvas and my yearning to learn more and try more and have a go…
This is truly a revelation!!!!
So to someone who would say that they can’t draw or paint, I would say…’actually have you ever tried?’… Trying, really trying, experimenting, daring to dare…
You may be surprised by what you discover…
A while ago, my husband and I went on morning trip to Fog Dam. An hour drive south of Darwin, I certainly didn’t want this trip to be too long. The humidity and the heat were quite unbearable.
But I simply forgot about those details when I saw those lotus flowers everywhere… Surreal experience.
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